A federal judge sentenced an American airman to fifteen years in prison Tuesday for leaking classified military information related to
A federal judge sentenced an American airman to fifteen years in prison Tuesday for leaking classified military information related to the war in Ukraine.
Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira pleaded guilty to six counts of “willful retention and distribution of highly classified information pertinent to national defense” in March after posting hundreds of restricted Pentagon documents on Discord, including some that described Ukrainian battle positions. Now, the former IT specialist with the Air National Guard’s 102nd Intelligence Wing has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the crime, which is two fewer years than the 17-year sentence that prosecutors originally sought.
